Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made between patriotism which is attachment to a way of life and nationalism which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it deserves all the consequences.